Latest Tech Quiz Questions and answers 2018

● It was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 as 87a and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

Answer: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)

QUESTION NO: 32 Virtual or Personal Assistants ?

Answer: Facebook

QUESTION NO: 33

Identify the Company ?

● Genius bars are tech support stations located on the retail stores of which company?

Answer: Apple Computers

QUESTION NO: 34

Technology to enter words by sliding fingers on the letters without lifting it, on touch screen devices.

Answer: SWYPE

QUESTION NO: 35

Name the Company ?

● Tegra, Tesla, GeForce and nForce are series for integrates chipsets are from which company?

Answer : NVIDIA

QUESTION NO: 36

Name this Award ?

● The Government of India has been bracing for innovation and transformation in delivery of information/services with adoption of best ICT practices. Almost every Government department is trying to make services accessible and integrated to citizens. It’s time to recognize these e-governance initiatives. These Awards, constituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, acknowledges exemplary initiatives/practices of various states/UTs in the realm of e-governance.

Answer: Web Ratna Award / Digital India Award

QUESTION NO: 37 Who is behind this app ?

● This app Trringo aims to bring the sharing economy to rural India by creating a large inventory of farm equipments on rent. Farmers can place order for tractors and implements through a toll free number or through the app. The digital backend finds the nearest tractor and passes order to the driver. The driver arrives at the location and completes the work and charges on an hourly basis.

Answer: Mahindra & Mahindra

QUESTION NO: 38 Name the Company ?

● A storage company started by Vivian Singh, Anshuman Gupta that starts with the name of an element on period table. This company has products like Memory Modules (DDR1, DDR2, DDR3), micro SD and flash Cards, Solid State Drives and USB Flash Drives. Which company?

Answer: Strontium

QUESTION NO: 40

Name this World’s First Regional Operating System ?

● This is an Indian mobile operating system based on Android. In India, the operating system has gained popularity, ranking above iOS & Windows and only behind Android. The operating system also has its own app market place called App Bazaar.

● The operating system is currently available in English & 12 Indian regional languages spoken by over 95% of the Indian population and has an active user base of over 7 million. This OS has partnered with the phone brands Micromax, Intex Technologies, Karbonn Mobiles, Celkon, Swipe, Elite & Trio Mobiles.

Answer INDUS (earlier known as Firsttouch)

QUESTION NO:41

● Micheal Hart typed the entire “Declaration of the Independence” into a computer to create something, it also marked a beginning to the world knows something else.

● He typed the text into a computer, all in capitals as there was no lower-case option at the time, and sent out a message on ARPAnet saying that it was now available to download. Six people took him up on the offer. What did he created?

● We know VR means Virtual Reality. In that context What does AR mean?

Answer: Augmented Reality

QUESTION NO: 44

Name the area ?

● Narinder Singh Kapany is an Indian-born American Sikh physicist known for his work in ………..

● He was named as one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes’ by Fortune in their ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue.

● He is also known as “Father of………”.

● The term ………. was coined by Singh Kapany in 1956. He is a former IOFS officer.

Answer: Fibre Optics

QUESTION NO: 45

Messaging App from Open Whisper Systems ?

● WhatsApp, announced it would use end-to-end encryption by default for all users, making it virtually impossible for anyone to intercept private WhatsApp conversations.

● Then in May, tech giant Google announced a brand new messaging app called Allo that also supports end-to-end encryption.

● Making the news even better from a privacy standpoint is that both WhatsApp and Allo use a widely respected securemessaging protocol from Open Whisper Systems, the San Francisco-based maker of this messaging app.

● Edward Snowden’s favorite messaging app is this.

Answer Signal

QUESTION NO: 46

Predecessor of Wikipedia ?

● Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called ………

● This Encyclopedia was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.

● Its main figures were Jimmy Wales, the CEO of Bomis, and Larry Sanger, editor-in-chief of that Encyclopedia .

Answer Nupedia

QUESTION NO: 47

Musical Streaming App

● Rishi Malhotra (Co-Founder & CEO)

● Vinodh Bhat (Co-Founder & President)

● Paramdeep Singh (Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)

Answer: Saavn

QUESTION NO: 48

What was the Google’s first tweet if it is decoded ?

Answer: I’m feeling lucky

QUESTION NO: 49

Who owns this brand ?

● Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture.

● Produces mainly LCD & Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) HDTV.

Answer: Sony

BRAVIA is a brand of Sony Visual Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, and used for its television products. Its backronym is “Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture”. All Sony high-definition flat-panel LCD televisions in North America have carried the logo for BRAVIA since 2005.

QUESTION NO: 50

● In computing, …………… is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. The term ‘…………..’ is also mostly utilized for the purposes of elaborately designed programs themselves.

Answer Benchmarking

QUESTION NO: 51

Name this electronic device ?

● United States Ambassador to Lichtenstein and Switzerland Suzi LeVine has become the first ambassador to be sworn into office on an electronic device.

● LeVine, 44, took her oath of office in London on an electronic device.copy of the U.S. Constitution held by Vice President Joe Biden.

● A photo sent by the U.S. Embassy in London’s Twitter account show’s LeVine’s hand placed on the device while being sworn in.

● LeVine’s choice of using an electronic version of the Constitution comes as less of a surprise than others – she was a product manager at Microsoft and a marketing executive with Expedia prior to joining the federal government.

Answer Kindle ––e-reader

QUESTION NO: 52

What is this project called ? .

● Now, when a potential terrorist recruit searches for known extremist content using a predefined set of keywords, they’ll instead be redirected to videos that deconstruct and confront the terrorist group by Google.

Answer Re-direct method

QUESTION NO: 53

● This is a freemium language-learning platform that includes a language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam.

● This offers all its language courses free of charge. As of November 2016, the language-learning website and app offer 68 different language courses across 23 languages.

● The app is available on iOS, Android and Windows 8 and 10 platforms with about 150 million registered users across the world.

Answer duoLingo

QUESTION NO: 54

What is this feature called ?

● This is a virtual perimeter for a real-world geographic area. This could be dynamically generated—as in a radius around a store or point location, or it can be a predefined set of boundaries, like school attendance zones or neighbourhood boundaries.

● This is a feature in a software program that uses the global positioning system (GPS) or radio frequency identification (RFID) to define geographical boundaries.

Answer Geo fencing

QUESTION NO: 55

● This is the process of adding geographical identification data to various media such as a photos, videos, websites or SMS messages.

● This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, place names, and perhaps a time stamp.

Answer Geotagging

QUESTION NO:56

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QUESTION NO: 57

Name the mobile phone company ?

Ans: JOLLA

QUESTION NO: 58

Name the App ?

● Google seems to have silently launched a new food delivery and home services aggregator called ………..for the India market. The app is available as a free download on the Google Play store and is currently operational in Bengaluru and Mumbai.

Answer Areo

QUESTION NO: 59

Name the company ?

● Shortened url ti.com will lead to a famous an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, This company is one of the top ten semiconductor companies worldwide, based on sales volume. This company focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which accounts for more than 85% of their revenue. TI also produces TI digital light processing (DLP) technology and education technology products including calculators, microcontrollers and multicore processors. To date, TI has more than 43,000 patents worldwide.

Answer Texas Instruments

QUESTION NO: 60

● A famous amul ad which captured an issue in India. What was the issue with TRAI ?

Answer Net Neutrality

● Indian dairy products manufacturers Amul have come up yet again with a witty poster ad on the latest issue of net neutrality. ● The latest ad is regarding net neutrality. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has decided to end net neutrality in India by April 24. However, netizens have raised protest with regards to their possible move. Net neutrality allows users to access all websites freely and equally. However, by ending this freedom, users will have to pay more and will have access only to a limited number of websites. On the other hand, it will help telecom companies to mint more money.

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I'm Amal Augustine, a .NET Professional and I lives in Kozhikode Kerala.
Apart from my interest on Quizzing I'm a software developer and I work on C#,JAVA,.NET,Android,SEO,Digital Marketing etc.. I was into Electronics and Communication Engineering and turned into IT Profession because of my interest on technology. I've participated over 70+ Quizzes during my college days and have won at least 50+ and I love to host IT Quizzes and be a QuizMaster, if you want me to conduct a quiz on your institute I'm happiest to do that. You can connect me via social networks below.